Reincarnated from the frozen corpse of Walt Disney, Sangjun Bae was raised in an incubator for a month until his biological mother and father brought him home. He eventually moved to New Jersey, but chose not to associate himself with any anthropomorphic mice until much later. Sangjun Bae also chose to shorten his name to Sang Bae, which is catchier. He carries a pencil in his pocket at all times. Bae will attend New York University as a journalism major.
Essays: Nine Years Later
Julia Butterfield lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan until she was nine and now lives in Westchester, in a town whose claim to fame is that once Tobey Maguire pretended to visit. Her favorite books are All the King’s Men and To Kill a Mockingbird. Next year she will attend Oberlin College where she will fight the power and study broadly.
Essays: How to Be Seventeen, An Ice Cream Hunt in Times Square, Mind Control
Anthony Cao is an avid musician and fencer and is fluent in English, Chinese and sarcasm. He enjoys historical fiction and spends his free time dueling Johnny Depp over a pit of lava.
Essays: The Knite Sky, Needle and Thread
Meet Emma Cunningham: she has attended The Masters School for eight years and is looking forward to heading down south to Wake Forest University this fall. You can usually find her killing it on the tennis courts, dancing in the DSL, or in the pages of the newest Vineyard Vines catalogue.
Essays: Kenz and I, Solo
Luke Davoren lives in Putnam County and has two (inferior) siblings and a beautiful yellow lab. His favorite hobbies include hiking, wearing plaid, and attempting to make the perfect barbecue pizza. He wanted sunglasses for his birthday; his parents found him a broken kayak instead. He spends his summers paddling on the Hudson River, bailing out his sinking boat, and contracting nearsightedness from excessive UV exposure. Luke will attend Wesleyan University next year where he plans to study chemistry and biology.
Essays: The Towers or How I Learned to Stop Fearing God, Dishing It Out (And Taking It), Lars and the Woods
Jazmine Figueroa was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and currently resides in Bronx, New York. She loves to read and enjoys late night Ramen eating sessions with her best friend Cassie. She is attending the University of Kansas in the fall and majoring in English.
Essays: Better Left Unsaid, One of a Kind
Gillian Goodman is sweet seventeen and lives just outside New York City with her three beloved cats and a dog she usually ignores until it barks loudly enough for her get up and let it outside. An aspiring poet, she looks forward to many fruitful years of waitressing. She plans on attending college only if her circus gig falls through.
Essays: Harvest, My Favorite Things, The Only One
Christina Guarin is a senior at The Masters School. She enjoys running and arguing with people about environmental issues. Christina currently resides in Westchester, New York, with her two older brothers and her pet cat. She will be attending Green Mountain College in the fall.
Meet Sydney LaSala: Big Squid or Squish, as she is often referred to by close friends, is excited to attend the University of Wisconsin next fall, though she is heartbroken that she will be leaving the deer-ridden grasslands of rural New York.
Essays: Life Goes On
Meet Sophie Lieber: one of the original coiners of the endearing name, "Squish(y)" that is applied to close friends, cute cats and small children. Sophie plans on continuing to rock pearls, cardigans, and everything J.Crew at University of Southern California next year. Though incredibly excited to become an official Cali babe, Squish will miss her two cats Sugar and Clyde more than any sane human should.
Essays: Valentine's Day, Sagaponack
Olivia Mason is moving from Westchester County to New York City this summer and will be attending University of St Andrews in Scotland in the fall. She enjoys playing tennis and spending quality time with her family and friends.
Essays: Placid, High Anxiety
Bennett Saltzman is a senior at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Golf prescribes many of his life choices, as does his love for Idaho. He has a butter phobia yet enjoys cooking. He fears missed opportunities, and thus (almost always) will take up a call to adventure. He is graced with some of the best friends in the world, and looks forward to making more stories and relationships at Bates College next fall.
Essays: We Regret to Inform You...
Sabrina Stanich, the Queen of Sass, resides in Westchester County, New York. Next year she'll attend Pitzer College where she and her roommate will grow kale in their dorm room and ironically karaoke to Taylor Swift music. Though California is far, she has reassured us that she will most definitely be keeping in touch with the history department (and her friends).
Essays: The Lying Game, Safe Haven, The Fading Memory Book
William Stanton is currently a senior at The Masters School. He plans to enroll at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore in the fall but has not decided on a major. He was born in 1995 and enjoys long walks on the beach, German rock bands, and baseball caps without the baseball team on them.